Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, the faculty administrative fellowship program aims to provide tenured faculty with leadership experience in higher education administration.

Current and past administrative fellows (PDF)

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Programming for department chairs/school directors and new academic leaders is designed to support and assist these academic administrators with the unique opportunities and challenges they might encounter in their roles.

Programs include:

  • Department chairs/school directors cabinet: Recognizing that the roles and responsibilities of the academic department chair/school director are among the most complex within the institution, Iowa State University established the Department Chairs Council, comprised of all current department chairs/school directors, to provide for communication between the department chairs as a group and the administration, faculty, staff, and students of Iowa State University. To facilitate communication, the council elects a cabinet which consists of one chair from each of the colleges and four at-large chairs. The associate provost for faculty and the faculty senate president sit on the committee as ex-officio non-voting members. The cabinet meets monthly to discuss and establish positions on matters of university concern with particular implications for academic departments and programs.
  • Department chair/school director workshops: The goal of these workshops is to provide department chairs/school directors with valuable information and useful resources to assist them in their work as managers and academic leaders of their departments/schools. The workshops seek to build a community of practice for ongoing information sharing, problem solving, and support. Workshops are led by faculty, staff, and administrators with demonstrated expertise in the session topic. All department chairs, school directors, associate chairs, and assistant chairs are strongly encouraged to attend.
  • Virtual chairs' chats: These fifty minute sessions on the first Wednesday of each month (September through May), 10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m., are used for delivering timely information, soliciting feedback, addressing topics of interest, and simply connecting.
  • New academic administrators boot camp: New (and newly interim) department chairs, school directors, associate chairs, and associate deans are invited to participate in a semester-long series of in-person sessions, scheduled several times a month, on Friday mornings from 8:30 a.m to 9:45 a.m., in 2030 Morrill Hall. These meetings introduce new academic leaders to policies, practices, and people instrumental to a successful first year in leadership. 

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The Emerging Leadership Academy is led by administrative director and faculty success coordinator Katharine Hensley, faculty co-lead and assistant provost for faculty success, Tera Jordan, and faculty co-lead and department chair of music and theatre, Brad Dell.